A Luddite was a 19th-century textile worker who was part of a movement against the use of certain machines that, if used, would have saved companies money. They would destroy some of the machines that caused the loss of jobs, and they were eventually met with military force.

I think my views have changed in that I understand the mechanics of how social media works better than I did before. I also now have a better idea of the different kinds of social media, and what they do to generate money. From this, I think I will be even more wary of what I see on social media.

Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that was responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire. This expedition brought much of what has become mainland Mexico under the rule of Castile.

I see capitalism very frequently in the US. It can be seen especially well in the business models of companies right now, where everything becomes monetized to the point where one has to pay a lot of money to get an ad-free service.

Face is a reference ot a sociological concept that is connected with the dignity and respect that someone has, as seen through their societal relationships. There are many different cultures in which the concept of face is prevalent, including Chinese, Indian, and Russian cultures.

I think the degree to which someone is shamed is a factor. Another factor is how bad the offense that the person committed was. If it were objectively bad, a certain degree of shaming can be expected.

Crowdsourcing is when a group of participants disperses the collective work it would take to complete something amongst themselves and is then able to complete the task more efficiently and effectively. Frequently, their task is some sort of product that requires many people to ponder over it at the same time. Crowdsourcing is also not limited to online examples. and has been around for much of human history.

I've played video games where everyone was participating in an objective that would complete some greater thing beyond the scale of what we could do on our own. Completing these objectives was a collective commuinity effort and was only accomplished because everyone did their part.

A Facebook moderator enjoyed her job but, during the pandemic, did not want to go to work in person due to her mother having heart issues that made COVID a more serious problem for her. When she had to go in anyway, she suffered mental health issues, which the company ignored.

I understand why Reddit mods think that they deserve to be paid due to the level of service that they're providing for the platform. However, I also understand the position of Reddit, as they are giving power to the users and shouldn't have to spend money on it, and paid mods could lead to some people abusing their power.

I have not made a post that has violated a social media platform's rules. I have however tried to create usernames in video games and my proposed names have been dissallowed for some reason or another. This can be because a name has some profanity, or that there are words within the username that could spell out something the game doesn't want you to spell.

Gathering data on how social media affects kids can be tricky, as much of the data comes from self-reported teenagers who are being told by the world around them that social media is bad for them, yet they continue to use it. Overall, data on social media use can be conflicting, as it is a relatively new concept, and some reports say it is beneficial, while others say it is harmful for teens.

Social Media is good for my health in that it lets me communicate with people whom I might not be able to see every day, and it is an easy way to stay in touch with what is happening in the world. It can be bad both in that it is addictive, and when I see people having fun when I'm not, it creates a feeling of missing out.

This is a book on evolution from 1976 by Richard Dawkins. In it he posits that evolution is a primiarly gene based process. He also says that if two people have similair genes, they are biologically predisposed to act similair to each other or in a way that benefits both of them.

I don't think I'd like anything I do to go viral. I'm not the kind of person who appreciates attention from people I don't know, so if people in public started to recognize me from some internet thing, I would be very freaked out.

They get money from selling the information of their users to other companies. They will also be able to use more targeted ads if they use all the information they have about a user, and if the user buys something, they make more money from that purchase.

This was a letter sent by the FBI to Martin Luther King Jr. It was sent to him in 1964 and detailed alleged sexual indiscretions that were committed by King. The letter implied that King should kill himself because his shame about his crimes should be too great for him to live with.

I think that websites should just be very strict and ban people who do not follow the guidelines. If the moderation on a website is strict, it makes it much harder for a trolling culture to develop and thrive. As long as there is a zero tolerance policy for bullying, trolling on a website should be kept to a minimum.

Elon Musk entered a merger agreement with Twitter's board that said that if he tried to back out of buying Twitter, he could be liable for up to a billion dollars. But despite this, he's potentially setting himself up to back out of the deal, citing Twitter's bot presence being too high (which Twitter denies).

Relationship status would be the easiest set of data to store out of the available options. The constraints placed could be that users are either in relationships or not, and it could be measured in a Boolean, showing either true or false to the status of users.

I think that the post was made as a collective effort from everyone. The person who wrote the code is responsible for creating the framework for which the post was made. I'm responsible for the details of the code, as I put in my login information and made the bot say what I want. And the bot is also partly responsible, as it carried out the actions and was ultimately the reason that a post was made.

Taoism is also about reaching harmony through self-cultivation. This is an important aspect to keep in mind when thinking about Taoism, as the improvement of the self is held in higher regard than any communal improvement, and when applied to social media, this might make for more of an individualistic framework as opposed to those who focus entirely on the common good.